Dine Out Downtown Boise is a beautiful cooperation between the Downtown Boise Association and 29 downtown restaurants. They combine forces to create a brilliant ten days of eating. It’s the perfect way to kick off the holiday weight gain.

The food supply chain is so vast and so complicated. It has yielded extra-virgin olive oil that is actually colored sunflower oil, Parmesan cheese bulked up with wood pulp, and a horsemeat scandal that, for a while, rendered Ikea outings Swedish meatball-free.

Jesse Maldonado was elected to City Council in Lewiston, Idaho when he was just 18. He appeared on the Eating With Henry podcast to talk about government’s influence on food and what to order when you’re networking. He also recommended mustard pizza, which I wasn’t aware existed.